Jim Jones Announces Dipskate Skate Team
By Houston Williams
Date: 10/23/2006 3:18 pm
Jim Jones is currently riding high with “We Fly,” but the Dipset executive is planning to enlist others to do the real aerodynamics for him.
Jones revealed to AllHipHop.com that he has started Dipskate, a Diplomat Records sponsored skate team.
The team is a union between the Harlem-based label and Courtney and Chris Brown of lifestyle-brand B. Unique.
B. Unique, coined the term “freestyle rolling,” which refers to the combination of aggressive skating, urban fashion and music.
The company approached Jones while filming a documentary titled Know Difference and the budding Dipset mogul said he was impressed at the lifestyle.
“When I got the opportunity to see their tape and they told me how the skaters and skateboarders feel when it comes to the Diplomats I was honored. They feel like we’re the realest thing out there and they love everything that we’re doing, so it was a beautiful opportunity,” Jones told AllHipHop.com in a statement.
Joseph Miles, Dipskate’s team manager, revealed that there are similarities with the fast rise of Hip-Hop and the rapid ascension of skating.
“Where I come from, growing up, extreme sports were always looked at as a form of escape,” Miles said. “I remember a quote from the intro to the first skateboarding video I ever watched, ‘they try so hard…they want to learn so much and ultimately they’re going to achieve their goals twice as fast as anyone else.’”
Ramelle Knight and Calvin Sayles are the two chief skaters in Dipskate.
B. Unique already sponsors over 10 professional in-line skaters in New York, Philly, Atlanta and parts of California.
Jones said an official launch event is scheduled for the spring of 2007.
Jim Jones’ “We Fly High” has garnered the Warner Music executive/Diplomats CEO the biggest hit of his recording career.
His album, Hustler’s POME hits stores on Nov. 7.
Article on allhiphop.com (via Exclusive)
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October 24th, 2006 at 8:14 am
incorporating “rollerblading” with niggerdom, hip hop culture, and gangsterism?
what a real great combo. thanks a lot.
October 24th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
sweet as hell, man you gotta love b.unique to death, and now dipset!
October 24th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
I think it’s awsome.
On a completely seperate note, hey where the hell did ecko go?
October 24th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
sweet cheecks do you live anywhere near colorado? I would love to pay you a visit and smack the shit out of you for ignorance like that
October 24th, 2006 at 6:01 pm
sweet cheeks come to nyc and say some shit like that, YOU FUCKIN IGNORANT BITCH! you wouldnt last a day in nyc, god i hope you live close to nyc cuz i wanna smack the shit out of you too! DIPSKATE, DIPSKATE! on another note….gotta love b unique and now dipskate, at least jim jones is doing something different than all these other rappers!
October 24th, 2006 at 7:54 pm
Sweetcheeks, I will smack the piss out of you. When you get half as good as me at skating, then you can comment on other peoples lifestlyes in rolling.
October 24th, 2006 at 8:32 pm
WOW….what a total fag, but yeah he is preety cool making a skate team and shit, and you gotta love having the gansta image in rollerblading as well :P
October 24th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
STUPID IDIOT. GO AHEAD, GET RAPED BY A BUNCHA CRIME LOVING NIGGERS. FUCK YOU. IT’S CRYME TYME YOU DUMB BITCHES.
October 24th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
diplomats is the shit, i have a diplomats shirt
October 24th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
sweet cheeks ur a disgrace to rolling
October 24th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
thats cool and all but skateing isent all about baggy pants and oversized tees i mean its cool that he is doing that for the industry but…idk
October 24th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
sweet cheeks go shove a pinapple up your ass. thats comming from me and i’m the whitest kid i know. but yea i’m not in to rap and what not but its good exposure and its cool to have more people involved in rolling
October 24th, 2006 at 11:04 pm
i can`t believe theres people actually hatin on the dipskate thing! yo what the fuck! bunique and dipset is the only people out there doin somethin for are sport! we don`t see none of u tight fagets gettin rock groups and helpin are sport. at least in hip hop we can hear the lyrics but u fuckin tight ass fagets are just makin noise! if u wanna talk about rock talk about rock music from the 70`s like pink floyd! but the rock music today sucks! ya tight fagets can`t even dance in a party with a girl, cause ya too busy lookin like one! at least we hip hoppers got reggae and music u can dance too! so fuck all ya haters! ya bitching and complaing to much but we don`t see none of u tight fagets wearing there sisters pants doing shit!
October 24th, 2006 at 11:05 pm
i bet u sweet cheeks is racist!
October 24th, 2006 at 11:09 pm
yo sweet cheeks! u sound like a faget! u should come to my block and talk all that shit! watch how fast u end up 6 ft deep!
October 24th, 2006 at 11:44 pm
it just goes to show how diverse rolling is, from emos to rockers, hip hopers to gangsters even to racists
October 25th, 2006 at 12:36 am
once we get support from a great company and famous person one log cabin racist muther fucker is going to go and fuck it up and try to ruin our sport. hell no. first comment too… real good reputation of rolling, moron. Go skate in a gutter by your bigot self and let us give rolling a cause.
October 25th, 2006 at 12:52 am
p2roll4life i listen to rock music i dont wear tight ass pants and i love to skate you are wrong about all of that there is more than one type of rock music just like there is more than one type of rap music. so you need to chill the fuck out. yea this is good exposure but people have their opinion.
October 25th, 2006 at 1:13 am
white or black tight or baggy so fucking what! skateing is skateing! I deal with skaters like sweet cheeks, if you are a real skater, all the time but the funny thing is skaters like him never say the shit they feel to your face! But I don’t give a fuck who helps supports our sport it can be Taco Bell or Mc Donalds but as long as they are willing to help our industry then I say welcome.
But remember who rejected our sport? the X-games and other companies so Sweet Cheeks go talk to your people for us so we can get coverage again! lol.
October 25th, 2006 at 2:50 am
uncalled for p2roll4life! did you think that i’d hate on dipset cause i wear tight pants and listen to music from the 70s? you’re WRONG! way to start hate cause you think others might disagree with you.
October 25th, 2006 at 3:47 am
p2roll
haha you pissed off a bunch of rockers!
this is huge for rollin, way bigger than aanything else anyone is doing. This will accually get our sport out to the public. plus i was startin to feel like one of the only white boys left wearin baggy jeans in rollin.
October 25th, 2006 at 7:22 am
SWEET CHEEKS for president.
October 25th, 2006 at 7:58 am
freals. FREALZ YO YA HERD.
October 25th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
props to dipset for doin this for rollin. Sweet cheeks i would like to see you call up dipset and b unique and say all that ish to their face. your such a big headed hater that you can’t even see what this will do for our sport. We got one of the most popular rappers in newyork reppin our sport so you goin have to haqte harder than that to stop them. for now I’m bout to cop me a dipset shirt so i can rock it when i’m skatin.
October 25th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
whaat. love dipset (jim jones, cam’ron, juelz santanna, 40 cal, jha jha, etc. for those who are close minded and ignorant). love skating, love b. unique. just one more step in the rapid explosion of skating. think its awesome and i’d be the first to ride for dipskate. and who says this is promoting crime, other than the fact that half the places we ALL skate are illegal for us to even be at. this is in no way involved in crime. just one more way to connect skating+music. tight.
October 25th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
Hey to everyone, don’t even listen to haters! I am not that much into Hip Hop but what they are doing with B-unique and now Dipskate is just amazing. I love to see guys like them giving money to our industry. The do something for us so give them the madest respect we can!
We have to stop this super dumb discussion about Hip Hop or Rock or whatever, we are rollers that is all what matters not the clothes!!! Look at Broskow he was amazing in baggys and he is amazing in tight pants too what’s the point???
October 26th, 2006 at 11:01 pm
Well put Oldman.
I suggest you guys check out Remelle Knights blog on his myspace page so you understand what Dipskate and what he plans to do with skateing.
http://www.myspace.com/melboogie
October 27th, 2006 at 12:23 am
http://www.harlempiff.com/main.html they even have their names on their web site under the diplomat family
October 27th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
damn b-unique is forreal so is dipset, hell yea
October 31st, 2006 at 6:49 pm
Look I might be one of those tight pants artsy skaters but you have to look at it this way now matter wat kind of music, background, or lifstyle you choose to portray this thing with dipset is big for rolling. You need to understand yeah alot of people want to keep rolling underground but at the sametime this opens new doors for younger skaters to be on a team and improve. B-Unique stands for exactly what there name is they are unique from everyone else tell me who else would have decided to bring rap/hip-hop, the actual music, to a sport where rap/hip-hop, the life style, is ever so present. I have incredable respect for Dipset in doing somthing diffrent for hip-hop and the sport and lifestyle of inline. So anyone out there who has a problem with Dipset and B-Unique should take there cheep and wallmart skates and throw them in the trash and pick-up a tennis racket and go to a sport where you might be respected as a fag. Look i listen to rock, metal, hardcore, and indie as well as some hip-hop/rap so in my mer opinion i believe thats this is awesome. My respect goes out to Dipset, Dipskate, B-Unique, and the everyone else who supports this colabaration between what has always been, Hip-Hop and Rolling.
November 28th, 2006 at 11:05 am
You guys ar all sheltered, and retarded w/ no uv or respect for differenes within cultures and sub cultures.DIPSET IS A HIGE STEP >NOT THAT IT NEEDS ANY.. you guy used racial slurs such as the Ni**e word. YOU R PATHETIC RACIST WHITE TRASH ASS EURO FAGGOTS. AND NO DISRESPECT TO GAY PEOPLE!
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:16 pm
yo dipskate is major nyce son..i like it ..but im with dat GGGGGG G-Unit
March 31st, 2007 at 9:09 pm
ya P2ROLL4LIFE i guesse ur saying eric baily chris haffey and jeff stockwell sucks because the wearing tight pants? wow stop pitching and go try to style out a frontside on a curb fuck dipskate all he wants is money and he doesnt metion rolling in any of his stuff
April 2nd, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Whats up CUHZ!!!
11 yearz of this shit rollin freely in the hood of Strong Beach Kali4Ya, from the neighbor hood of the where warren G and Snoop Dogg originally came from. i aint never trip on a skateboarder. in fact, when i first started my rollin partner was a skateboarder back in 1995. HOOD NIGGAS. Every where we went we had each other back. dont matter if your a skateboarder or if your freestyle rollin, thats why i can also bust on a skateboard. Real shit. but my heart perfer freestyle rollin, its something that ive accomplised and still trying to take this to the next level . not becus i want to be diffent not becus its easy, simply its something i love to do. i build a name for myself and ima keep doing it. we give each other props for the craziest shit we do. we brought this sk8 shit to our cambodian communitie believe it or not, when we started there wasnt many local skater around but us, so when we do meet other skater we try to make to best out of it… and now kidz are skating and not joining gangs, to see the street change is a positive thang.. RIP BLACK MIKE. skateborder. he gave me props when he use to see me freestyle rollin Grinding in the neighborhood. And you thought Sk8boarding and Bladin couldnt get along. These are real niggaz keeping it true. appreciating for the littliest thing we do. From where we’re from there not much. Terry Kennedy.. another cool nigga. skateboarder. he know niggas i know from my town. Made something out of Nothing. Respect to TK doing real big thang- Now the captain of ICE CREAM. my nigga. swift. use to be a regular kid skatin in the HOOD. But the messege im trying to get at is. Stop the hatred. stop the bullshit. stop ya yapping. its just skating. MOTHAFUCAZ-
TOneLoC5SixDuce.
ONe LOve.
-tony-